Derek Chan (@thederekchan) 's Twitter Profile
Derek Chan

@thederekchan

Paediatric Haem/Onc Fellow @SickKidsNews. MD/PhD. Haematology, stem cell biology, global health and medical humanities.

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CZI Science (@cziscience) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Welcome new #RareAsOne grantees! We’re excited to have you join the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative community + support your efforts to find treatments and cures for rare diseases czi.co/3CMTMeg

Sickle Cell Awareness Group of Ontario (SCAGO) (@scagoscd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"We need more than empathy for our patients, we need compassion." Impactful words from Nurse Appiah-Boateng to close our final Q&A session at #SCDSummit2021. Thank you to everyone who joined us today in the push towards more #equitablecare. UHN Social Work The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Ontario Ministry of Health

"We need more than empathy for our patients, we need compassion." Impactful words from Nurse Appiah-Boateng to close our final Q&amp;A session at #SCDSummit2021. Thank you to everyone who joined us today in the push towards more #equitablecare. <a href="/UHNSocialWork/">UHN Social Work</a> <a href="/SickKidsNews/">The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)</a> <a href="/ONThealth/">Ontario Ministry of Health</a>
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It was absolutely my honour and pleasure to bring this work back to the @SCAGO1 community today! Thank you again for your supports and please keep up the good and important work you are doing to benefit patients with sickle cell disease. We really need more of this!

Sickle Cell Awareness Group of Ontario (SCAGO) (@scagoscd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Are you a young researcher with an interest in #sicklecell? Applications are now open for SCAGO's 2022 Young Researchers' Award Program! The recipient will receive a $2000 grant to conduct a 3-month #research project. Apply by March 31st! Learn more: sicklecellanemia.ca/young-research…

Are you a young researcher with an interest in #sicklecell? Applications are now open for SCAGO's 2022 Young Researchers' Award Program! The recipient will receive a $2000 grant to conduct a 3-month #research project. 

Apply by March 31st! Learn more: sicklecellanemia.ca/young-research…
The New Yorker (@newyorker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“If we truly want to cure sickle-cell disease, editing genomes will only get us so far,” @dhruvkhullar writes. “We’ll need to rewrite our medical system, too.” nyer.cm/zFFcJYk

BCCH Foundation (@bcchf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Big things come from small beginnings. Everything groundbreaking or world-changing starts this way. Your support could be just what we need to push the next medical advancement over the finish line. Together we’ll show the world: #SmallisMighty makeusmighty.ca

Derek Chan (@thederekchan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"True friendship offers deep satisfactions, but it also imposes vulnerabilities and obligations, and to pretend it doesn’t is to devalue friendship." nytimes.com/2023/02/09/opi…

Derek Chan (@thederekchan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"It is from the discreet and considerate little things [good mentors] do, that big things and dreams can grow." Well reflected upon and shared!

Isaac Odame (@drodame) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today, World Sickle Cell Day, we amplify the United Nation’s declaration that sickle cell disease is a public health problem in LMICs. Let’s elevate SCD to the level it deserves on the global health agenda. Global Sickle Cell Disease Network #WorldSickleCellDay

BC Children's Hospital Research Institute (@bcchresearch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2023 Outstanding Achievement Awards and the Clinical & Translational Research Seed Grant. Read more: bcchr.info/3s7JVPM. #healthresearch

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2023 Outstanding Achievement Awards and the Clinical &amp; Translational Research Seed Grant.
Read more: bcchr.info/3s7JVPM.

#healthresearch
Derek Chan (@thederekchan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hands down love this. Beyond the storyline of #SickKidsVS, this concept translates why research is so important to healthcare now and in the future in very real terms: youtu.be/GvjMJVBB_WI

Derek Chan (@thederekchan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

First in-person #ASH24! What a good conference. Really enjoyed meeting so many people doing cool work to move this field forward!

First in-person #ASH24! What a good conference. Really enjoyed meeting so many people doing cool work to move this field forward!